Contending
for the
Faith
An Updated History Of The Baptists

• Follows the succession method of church history study based on History of the Baptists by John T. Christian.
• Includes four chapters to bring the history up to date from 1845
• Also follows "Spiritual Kinship" method of Thomas Armitage
• Shows historical inaccuracy of "1641 Theory" advanced by William H. Whitsitt that claims that Baptists initiated baptism by immersion in 1641
• Substantiates the claim that the John Clarke Memorial Baptist Church in Newport, RI is the oldest continuous Baptist Church in America
• Edited by Dr. Robert Ashcraft and published by the Sunday School Committee of the American Baptist Association
• 776 pages, people and subject indexes
• Includes PDF compact disk

Price for book and PDF CD $39.95